the novel‚ Jem and Scout Finch learned just about every lesson essential in life. Although they are only nine and twelve when the story ends‚ they don’t have much left to learn in life. After living through a biased trial‚ a near-death experience‚ and prejudice these children understand a lot. If it wasn’t for people in their life like Atticus‚ Boo Radley‚ and Calpurnia‚ they wouldn’t be as compassionate and intelligent as they grow to be. The trial of Tom Robinson is very influential on Jem and
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almost-thirteen-year-old boy scream “Run‚ Scout! Run! Run!‚” I knew I had to act fast. The pulsing of my head has never been louder as I ran down the trail to see the source of the scream the only thing I could think about was what I was going to see or do when I get to the scene. It was blur.. the adrenaline in me made me run faster than I ever did in my everlasting life. When I heard the screams get louder I slowed down a bit to see what I was going to have to deal with. As soon as I did I saw jem trying to fight off
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In the short story To Kill a Mockingbird‚ which is taken place during the great depression there lived a young girl named Scout. Scout was a young girl that lived in Maycomb County‚ Alabama in the early 1930’s. She lived in a society where she was taught to be racist and naive. But over time she grew to be more understanding and lady-like. For instance she started to open to people she never would have‚ like Boo Radley. She became loving and an open girl rather than judging people who weren’t exactly
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tolerant relationship between the two races. Although in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ that taboo was broken by a black woman Calpurnia and a white woman Aunt Alexandra. Cal is a hard working woman who earns every penny she makes. Aunt Alexandria on the other hand is a privileged white woman who feels entitled to the world. They are like night and day‚ but are tolerant of each other for one reason‚ family. They both share a special relationship with the two kids‚ Jem and Scout. They
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within their relationship. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Atticus instructs his children many things over the tight relationship they have together. Many things occurred in this book‚ some of which revolved around the Tom Robinson court case. Although Jem and Scout were young‚ they attended the court case and took quite a bit from it. Atticus was the defending lawyer and he had explained the court system with Jem and Scout briefly prior to this event. Atticus teaches Jem and Scout to not be
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Mental change is another type of change that Jem goes through. Jemstart to think like an adult as he gets older in the book. He shows it at thetrial of Tim Robinson when the jury is in the jury room and he starts to talk toReverend Sykes. He starts saying thing about the trial and Reverend Sykes askhim not to talk like that in front of Scout. Which shows that he knows whathe is talking about.(see page 208-209). There is also the time when he had togo and read to Mrs. Dubose which he later finds
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around the Finch family it consists of Atticus‚ Jem‚ Scout‚ Aunt Rachel and Calpernia. Atticus the father is put into a hard pressed situation when the judge appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson‚ the black man accused of raping a white girl. The whole town is against Atticus defending Tom and their whole family Is taking a verbal beating from members of the town that don’t like blacks people. The following paragraphs are going to be aimed at Jem Finch the oldest son who is starting to mature and
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failure as a parent". Although he is not the perfect role model parent‚ he is very responsible and easily gained the trust of Jem and Scout‚ something essential in every parent-child relationship. Also‚ even though he is a single parent‚ he tries his best to raise Jem and Scout to be moral and respectable people. Atticus incorporated good moral values into Jem and Scout by acting as a good role model to them and strongly upholding justice and not taking favourites‚ even to his own children. He
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the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ there are many recurrences of the theme of reason vs. madness. An all too familiar scene is when the mad Tim Johnson is seen "moseyin’" down the road by Jem and Scout and is put out of his misery by Atticus‚ who at first is reluctant to take the shot. This scene not only strengthens Atticus’ character‚ but sets a prime example of how reason takes on the madness of the situation. This same theme is repeated in different forms throughout the novel and
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the trial scene and its relationship to the rest of the novel: The trial scene‚ which takes up several chapters of the book‚ can be seen as the climax of the story. This part of the book sums up some themes Harper lee refers to in the novel such as racial prejudice‚ morality‚ injustice and maturity. The trial is the backbone of the novel‚ and was an effective way to for the author to show that racism was present in the society of Maycomb and its relationship with the novel becomes apparent. Shortly
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